since most people believe in a god there must be a god...?

Question

and since most men believe cindy crawford would want to sleep with them if she met any of them, the same must be true, right? how could so many people believe something that isn't true, without any empirical evidence whatsoever? certainly it must be true. these people aren't just deluding themselves are they?

Answer 1

I don't think many people truly believe they have a shot with Cindy Crawford. Not in the same way they believe that there's a God.

Answer 2

If the beliefs of the majority really did dictate the nature of reality, we would have seen it. In such a universe, there would never be any scientific progress; the Earth would have turned out flat, there would have been only four elements, and the speed of light would not have been constant relative to all observers. The whole basis of scientific discovery is the fact that we don't yet know everything, that there is more in the Universe than what we might believe at any one time. And this principle has been demonstrated over and over again.

Besides, there's another problem. It is possible to have it so that there is no majority consensus for certain things. For example, while more than half of the people in the world believe in God, only about a third believe in any specific deity, and even they encounter lots of discord within their own ranks. How can we tell the nature of this God we have created through our beliefs if only a minority accepts any specific nature? This disproves your theory automatically, unless you can revise it in some way (such as the largest group determines reality, although you'd still run into problems with equal groups).

Answer 3

Consensus can never usurp logic and reasoning, when it comes to questions of truth. Getting a majority to agree on something works fine for democracies, but we cannot leave philosophical propositions or scientific truths to the fickle whims of the majority.

Remember 500 years ago slavery was universally used as the main source of labor. Does the overwhelming application of subjugated people to do work, testify to the moral correctness of slavery? Absolutely not. Just over 150 years ago, if you were to survey most men, they would testify that women are intellectually and emotionally inferior to men. The fact that women today are making major inroads into every area of our society, and are the forerunners in quite a few fields, contradicts this previously widely held view.

Truth must be gauged on the logical consistency of a truth claim, and where the preponderance of evidence points to. The fact that so many people believe in God, is not a testament to the truthfulness of the claim, but is more of a testament of the overwhelming credulity of the human race.

Answer 4

Science is not the only way of knowing. When you do not have a personal relationship with God, you will not have the understanding of God. You rely on your own understanding of on the understanding of other people who do not have personal relationship with God either.

I have the hope and peace and love with my Lord. I feel sorry for all people who do not experience that.

Answer 5

Since most little children believe in the easter bunny, too, does that mean the Easter Bunny is real, that it really truely exists?

Answer 6

I swear I remember finding her attractive when I was like eleven years old.

I'm trying to figure if it was because she was sorta hot in the eighties, or because my tastes have changed radically.

Answer 7

What about all the Muslims? Surely they can't be wrong? What about the millions upon millions of Buddhists? They can't be wrong either!

Answer 8

Obviously belief on a massive, or any, scale does not determine the facts.

Answer 9

The same reason religion has always been around. People fear death.

Answer 10

the people who believe in god dont even know who/what god is..